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Exhibition Talk & Tour:  Prix Pictet Human

Ausstellungsgespräch und Führung|Public Program

  • Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), 9th Floor (L wing), Bangkok

  • English with Thai Translation
  • Free admission and Registration required
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Exhibition Talk & Tour:  Prix Pictet Human © Prix Pictet

Exhibition Talk & Tour:  Prix Pictet Human © Prix Pictet

Education Department, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre in collaboration with Pictet Group and the Goethe-Institut Thailand, cordially invites the public to join the program “Exhibition Talk & Tour: Prix Pictet Human”, part of the exhibition’s public program.

The program features Gauri Gill, acclaimed Indian photographer and winner of the Prix Pictet Human, who will share her inspirations and artistic journey through a talk reflecting on the complex realities of rural life in India. She will be joined by Maxime Bertocchi, Communications Manager of the Prix Pictet, who will lead a guided tour offering deeper insights into the curatorial concept of the exhibition.

Agenda

Thursday, 11 September 2025, 14.00 - 16.00 hrs.  
At Main Exhibition Gallery, 9 Fl., Bangkok Art and Culture Centre 

Talk Speaker: Gauri Gill, Winner of Prix Pictet Human
Tour Speaker: Maxime Bertocchi, Communications Project Manager, Prix Pictet Human  

13.45 - 14.00 hrs. - Registration
14.00 - 15.00 hrs. - Talk by Gauri Gill, Winner of Prix Pictet Human
15.00 - 15.15 hrs. - Q&A
15.15 - 16.00 hrs. - Tour by Maxime Bertocchi 

Statement of The Artist

‘On my many visits to rural Rajasthan, I have witnessed a complex reality I knew nothing about as a city dweller. To live poor and landless in the desert amounts to an inescapable reliance on oneself, on each other, and on nature. These fragments of shared experience now inhabit a large photographic archive called Notes from the Desert, encompassing different narratives and varied forms of image making.’ - Gauri Gill

In April 1999, I set out to photograph village schools in Rajasthan. Having grown up mainly in cities, I soon realised that school was simply a microcosm of a complex reality I knew nothing about. Since then, in the Thar desert of western Rajasthan, visiting the same people and places over decades, I have witnessed the whole spectrum of life: drought years and the year of a great monsoon — when Barmer became Kashmir; dust storms that can give you a fever and a flood bad enough to cause the rebuilding of homes. I have followed the farming cycle, migration, men travelling to work in Gujarat and Maharashtra, Food for Work programmes, rural employment and other government schemes, nomadic journeys, epidemics, cerebral malaria, tuberculosis, overwhelmed hospitals and understaffed schools, death from snakebite, from accidents, from being burned alive for providing an inadequate dowry, from growing old, the death of a camel in a year remembered as the year of the death of the camel, births, marriages, child marriages, moneylenders, dharnas, national and panchayat elections, festivals, feuds passed down over generations, celebrations, prayers ... and, through it all, my valiant friends, by whom I was led.

Gauri Gill

India

Gill studied at Delhi College of Art, Parsons School of Design, New York, and Stanford University, California.

Her work has been shown internationally, including at Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010), The Wiener Holocaust Library, London (2014), San José Museum of Art, California (2015) and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala, India (2016). In 2017, Gill’s work was exhibited at Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel, the 7th Moscow
Biennale, and Centre Pompidou, Paris. It has been shown at Museum Tinguely, Basel (2018), MoMA PS1, New York (2018), the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), Chobi Mela, Dhaka (2019), and BAMPFA, Berkeley, California (2020).

Gill’s first major survey exhibition opened at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, in 2022, moving to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark,
in January 2023.

She also exhibits at locations outside the art world, including public libraries, rural schools and non-profit institutions. Her work is held by institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, Smithsonian Institution, Washington and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.

Her awards include the Grange Prize, awarded by the Art Gallery of Ontario (2011), and an India Today Art Award (2018). She has been a Creative Arts Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy (2013), and was the inaugural Roberta Denning Visiting Artist at Stanford University (2022).

Gill has recently published two books with Edition Patrick Frey about her collaborations with rural artists, Acts of Appearance (2022) and Fields of Sight (2023).

About The Tour Speaker

Maxime Bertocchi

Communications Manager

Maxime Bertocchi is Communications Manager. He joined Pictet’s Group Communications team in Geneva in 2019, later spending time in Hong Kong in 2021-22. He is now responsible for content, PR, business relations and events advisory at the Prix Pictet, the world’s leading award for photography and sustainability. Maxime holds a BA in Business Administration and an MA in Marketing from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Outside of work, he is a keen athlete and photographer.

Agenda

  • Portfolio-Besprechung mit Gauri Gill

    Discussion | Geschlossene Veranstaltung

    • Goethe Saal, Goethe-Institut Thailand, Bangkok

    Details

  • Exhibition Talk & Tour:  Prix Pictet Human

    Ausstellungsgespräch und Führung | Public Program

    • Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), 9th Floor (L wing), Bangkok